Word: carte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the Senate Banking Committee upset the carefully stacked apple cart when it voted 10 to 5 not to approve the Administration's bill. That would have given $1.5 billion of federal loan guarantees, if the company managed to raise a similar amount of nonguaranteed loans. Both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans on the committee concluded that this plan was too soft and generous; it did not ask for any specific financial sacrifice from workers, dealers, suppliers, shareholders and bankers...
...agency intensified a holy war against breakfast cereal companies; it has proposed breaking them up and banning ads for presweetened cereals from Saturday morning's TV cartoon shows. An FTC-proposed rule warned that such ads were enticing children to "surreptitiously" sneak cereals into Mom's shopping cart. Washington wags quipped that the FTC would soon ban peanut butter because it stuck to the roof of the mouth...
...Cart Man uses few words, The Story of an English Village (Atheneurm; $7.95) is totally mute. Still, John S. Goodall's watercolors are eloquent enough to carry the progress of a British town from medieval beginnings to its present state. In other hands, the use of half pages overlaid on full ones might be a gimmick. But Goodall's visual narrative is so controlled, and his costumes and customs so accurate, that history assumes a personality. Moving by lively steps, it arranges hemlines and coats, advances from midwives to doctors, from town criers to village schools...
...early, and he is a hard judge. In 1964, for instance, it was not Senator Barry Goldwater's warlike remarks about Cuba that cooked his goose in New Hampshire. It was his existential dismay one night in Littleton, as he was drawn through the town in a cart pulled by a Shetland pony. The Senator not only looked like a man imprudent enough to let himself be talked into sitting in a pony cart; he looked as if the pony were in control of the situation...
...week's end the plan was to cart off the tritium to the Navajo Army depot, a federal munitions dump near Flagstaff, Ariz. There it could be processed for sale, fed at a safe rate into the atmosphere or dumped at a nuclear waste site. But when a Flagstaff judge issued a restraining order against the transport, its destination became dubious...